The surface of Mars is known for being an extremely cold, desiccated, and irradiated place. But as its many surface features ...

Like Earth, Mars has thick ice caps at both poles ... one mile but then changes to the signature of water. Esa said a lake 12 miles long likely existed about one mile beneath the southern Martian ...

Mars is permanently covered by water ice at its north pole. The ice sheet here is approximately 1,000 kilometers in diameter and up to 3 kilometers thick, and its load depresses the rocky crust ...

Roberto Orosei of the National Institute of Astrophysics in Bologna, Italy, and his colleagues detected a bright spot at the southern pole using radar data taken with the Mars Express spacecraft from ...

Despite the chilly temperatures, there could be liquid water underneath the surface ice ... lake, 20 kilometres across, hidden beneath the south pole. If there were once oceans on Mars, they ...

Why it's incredible: The lake is the only place on Earth that's similar to Jezero crater on Mars. Lake Salda is a body of water in Turkey that bears a strong resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater.

Radar scans reveal up to 2.2 miles of subsurface ice beneath Mars’s Medusae Fossae, per Geophysical Research Letters. The formation was long thought to be loose ash or dust—but its low density ...